The Austere Academy. A Series of Unfortunate Events. Book the Fifth.

Snicket, Lemony [pseud. Daniel Handler]

ISBN 10: 0064408639 / ISBN 13: 9780064408639

Published by Harper Collins, New York, 2000

About this Item

8vo. original laminated pictorial boards, fore-edge uncut (prev. owner's bookplate and name to FFE); pp. [x (last blank)], 228 (last blank), with illustrations. A very good copy. The fifth novel in this bestselling series.

Seller Inventory # 029097

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Austere Academy. A Series of Unfortunate Events. Book the Fifth.
• Publisher: Harper Collins, New York
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0064408639
• ISBN 13: 9780064408639
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Illustrator: Brett Helquist
• Edition: Reprint.
• Condition: VG+
• Dust Jacket Condition: None Issued
• Seller catalogs:
  • Childrens Literature

About this title

Synopsis

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES

As the three Baudelaire orphans warily approach their new home Prufrock Preparatory School, they can't help but notice the enormous stone arch bearing the school's motto Memento Mori or "Remember you will die."

This is not a cheerful greeting and certainly marks an inauspicious beginning to a very bleak story just as we have come to expect from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, the deliciously morbid set of books that began with The Bad Beginning and only got worse.

About the Authors

Lemony Snicket had an unusual education, which may or may not explain his ability to evade capture. He is the author of the thirteen volumes in A Series of Unfortunate Events, several picture books, including The Dark, and the books collectively titled All the Wrong Questions.

Brett Helquist's celebrated art has graced books from the charming Bedtime for Bear, which he also wrote, to the New York Times–bestselling A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket to the glorious picture book adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. He lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York.

Michael Kupperman has done many illustrations for such publications as Fortune, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. He frequently writes scripts for DC Comics. This is his first book.